tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post2599033483417115801..comments2023-09-15T05:24:29.125-07:00Comments on What lies within: Today was a sad day.....Margaret Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-23731488675731439902012-11-20T01:23:29.861-08:002012-11-20T01:23:29.861-08:00Hello Shinshi
Thank you very much for your commen...Hello Shinshi<br /><br />Thank you very much for your comment. I would welcome the opportunity to speak to Shifu Arakawa. I still distrust teachers/gurus and it is impacting on my spiritual life so having contact with him as being the successor of Terry Dukes may bring closure for me.<br /><br />My email to contact me is dempseym2002@yahoo.com. Please will you forward me Shifu Arakawa's contact details or pass on my email details to him.<br /><br />Thank you again for taking the time to comment on this site. I don't blog here anymore. My new website is www.kundalinispiritualawakening.com<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />MargaretMargaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-92169763809754834702012-11-20T00:56:38.362-08:002012-11-20T00:56:38.362-08:00Margaret, you don't know me but, I too have sp... Margaret, you don't know me but, I too have spent many years in Mushindokai learning Martial Arts. Unlike you, I never met Terry Dukes but, I do know his successor. Yes, Shifu Dukes did appoint a successor before he died.<br /> I think you'd really like his successor if you were to meet him. Shifu Arakawa is unusual in many ways and, I would encourage you to call him or write him an email sometime.<br /> He sort of adopted several of his students and named us. My name is<br />Shinshi. If I can help you, please feel free to email me. --- Shinshi<br />Spectrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03765482717820956393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-44015408737095224952008-12-31T14:36:00.000-08:002008-12-31T14:36:00.000-08:00Hello BillThank you very much for taking the time ...Hello Bill<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to post a comment. I wish I could say that I understood what you have written but the truth is that I don't.<BR/><BR/>I could ask some more questions and dig a little deeper but to do so would not serve any useful purpose in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>Thank youMargaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-40364073819218325692008-12-30T05:14:00.000-08:002008-12-30T05:14:00.000-08:00I have just picked this up in my searches for an i...I have just picked this up in my searches for an internet obituary.<BR/>Also, it was pointed out that there is a "new" website for Mushindokai, and even more extraordinary, a stupa has apparently been erected to the memory of this enigmatic charlatan.<BR/><BR/>There are many "survivors" out there, making incredible contributions to the planet.<BR/><BR/>What, however, is really incredible, is the persistence of ignorance. I mean those who seek to perpetuate the fantasy. I wish those in particular an early disillusionment.<BR/><BR/>Bill RowlesBill Rowleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12902656337889111038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-26655400865036443532008-02-04T23:28:00.000-08:002008-02-04T23:28:00.000-08:00Wow, isn't it a small world when it comes to the i...Wow, isn't it a small world when it comes to the internet. I remember the many hours we spent studying cheirology with you in Hammersmith. Your dedication and conscientiousness towards the subject was inspiring.<BR/><BR/>If I had the choice again I would still have joined Mushindokai, not for Terry Dukes but for everything I learned from you,and everyone else. When I heard about how it had folded I was sad for those who had given so many years of their lives being committed to him. But I would never ever think that this was time wasted. <BR/><BR/>I know that it is as a direct result of everything I learned when I was part of Mushindokai that I am able to write the kind of things that I was writing in this blog.<BR/><BR/>I don't know what you are doing now because I have lost touch with everyone. I can only hope that you are still active in your search for truth and I wish you every success in that pursuit.<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much responding to this blog entry. <BR/><BR/>All the best<BR/><BR/>MargaretMargaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-1133140614334373392008-01-31T04:54:00.000-08:002008-01-31T04:54:00.000-08:00Hi Margaret,well done for spotting the nature of t...Hi Margaret,<BR/>well done for spotting the nature of the beast long before many of the more 'conscientious' did. You weren't wrong to leave...<BR/>The group folded in January 1999 when six of us orchestrated a mass exodus of the last remaining members of the four Mushindokai groups. The sexual/abuse / harrassment issues had in fact been going on for years (since at least 1972 as far as we later found out); it was his way of belittling the women who ventured to 'Kongoryuji Temple' in search of meaning and inspiration. With all the membership gone, the groups could not continue - and neither could Dukes. In 2000, it is with no little irony [Mu-shin-do: the path with an empty heart....] that he suffered congestive heart failure, eventually dying from this in late 2005. <BR/>regards,<BR/>Christopher JonesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com